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by bobcostas55 4001 days ago
>Taxi services are regulated for good reason.

You can't just leave us hanging, what reason is it? Why does the taxi driver cartel deserve economic rents at the expense of everyone else?

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If you were to design a taxi system from scratch you'd probably want to have

* increased levels of insurance to cover passengers and their belongings

* rigid maintenance requirements on the vehicles that do get more wear & tear through commercial usage

* background checks on drivers, not as much as molester/criminal type that the press likes to sensationalize, but just driving record - obviously someone who keeps running red lights, gets speeding tickets, gets into road rage and runs over people should spend less time on the road, not more

* once you've figured those requirements out, a third party needs to enforce the rules and be able to shut off the offending drivers

Most likely candidate for a third party is a government agency. Most likely process for approving/forbidding someone from entering the field of commercial transportation is licensing.

If there are better ideas that would lead to increase in public safety and decrease in bad guys abusing the system just to turn a quick buck, those are certainly worth discussing.